Log college - Alexander - XII - Chapter 14 concluded

Required reading
The log college by Archibald Alexander (Available from Amazon or free here) - Conclude Chapter 14 (Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Blair).

My summary
Today we finish our chapter on Samuel Blair.

Last week we began to hear about the revival that occurred in Blair's church, but only that the town was in a poor religious state before the revival came.

This week the revival comes.  We hear about:
(i) the preaching of a visiting preacher that began the revival;
(ii) the changes in the people;
(iii) false conversions;
(iv) ministers who opposed the work;
(v) an account of a young woman;
(vi) an account of a middle aged man;
(vii) an account of changes in children;
(viii) the testimony of some elders as to the truth of the revival.

Then to conclude the chapter we are told about Blair's:
(i) theology;
(ii) preaching;
(iii) association with Gilbert Tennent;
(iv) controversies with the Synod of Philadelphia.

What grabbed me
Always encouraging to read about revival. 

I found this effect of revival interesting: 'The general carriage and behaviour of people was soon very visibly altered. Those awakened were much given to reading in the Holy Scriptures, and other good books. Excellent books that had lain by much neglected, were then much perused, and lent from one to another; and it was a peculiar satisfaction to people, to find how exactly the doctrines they heard daily preached, harmonized with the doctrines contained and taught by great and godly men in other parts, and former times.'

Not only were they reading the Scriptures, they were reading 'excellent books'!

Next week's reading
Read Chapters 15 (Memoir of the Rev. John Blair) and 16 (Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Finley).

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.